Smart Glasses Session Transfer for Confidential Data Entry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices such as desktop computers and smart glasses have distinct advantages and disadvantages, with desktops being convenient for navigation and typing but vulnerable to privacy breaches, while smart glasses offer security but are less convenient for complex interactions.
Innovation Solution
A method for session-sharing between devices, enabling a first computing session on a desktop to initiate a second session on a mobile device like smart glasses, using a QR code to transfer user session information and maintain confidentiality by locking the desktop display and creating a secure input session on the mobile device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If desktop computer is used for navigation and data input, then ease of operation is improved, but security and privacy are worsened due to visual trespass by fraudsters
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the computing session into two separate devices: a desktop computer for navigation tasks and a mobile device for confidential data input. The session state is divided and managed across both devices, allowing each to perform its optimized function while mitigating the desktop's privacy vulnerability.
Solution Approach 2:
A mobile device acts as an intermediary between the user and the desktop computer's display. The mobile device receives session information from the desktop, presents confidential input fields in a private manner, and transfers authenticated session state back to the desktop, thereby mediating the privacy risk.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If smart glasses are used for confidential data input, then security and privacy are improved, but ease of operation is worsened for complex UI workflows
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the computing session into two separate devices: a desktop computer for navigation tasks and a mobile device for confidential data input. The session state is divided and managed across both devices, allowing each to perform its optimized function while mitigating the desktop's privacy vulnerability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves multiple functions: it acts as a private display for confidential information, provides a secure keyboard for data input, and functions as an authentication mechanism. This multi-functionality consolidates privacy-critical operations in one device while allowing the desktop to handle navigation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If session information is transferred between devices, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity is worsened due to communication infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of the essential session state (authentication tokens, session identifiers, and user context) and transfers it between devices. Rather than maintaining complex real-time synchronization, the mobile device receives a copy of the necessary session information from the desktop, enabling independent operation while preserving session continuity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for session-sharing between an electronic interactive session hosted at a first device and a session hosted at a second device is provided. The second device includes a display arrangement to input confidential information to the second device absent visual trespass. The method also includes establishing communication between a common data storage device, the first device and the second device, transferring user session initiation information to the common data storage device and receiving a user command. The user command locks the first user session at the first device, sends an instruction to the first device to mask a display associated with the first user session, maintains the session initiation information entered at the first device in the database and creates a second user session. The second user session invokes the information from the first device in order to support a confidential data input session at the second device.